An Evening in the Raw with Kristine Matheson @ Wray Organic Market and Cafe, Cleveland QLD

Last night my husband and I went along for a special presentation by Kristine Matheson and her husband held at our local Wray Organic Market and Cafe in Cleveland, Brisbane South East.
It ran from 6pm until 8pm and cost $20 including light refreshment. I keep up to date on events happening at Wray Organic Market and Cafe through their Facebook pages.

I had seen 'An Evening in the RAW' presentation advertised in Wray Organic Market and Cafe newsletters and website a few months ago and I was so happy to see it was on again.

Kristine had cancer and was a self-professed 'wild child' who was eating and drinking all the wrong things. She was also absorbing all the chemicals, additives, preservatives, perfumes and artificial colours that is making us all sick. She worked long and hard eating a clean food, raw food and live food diet. Removing alcohol and other non-essential comforts from her diet and cured herself of CANDIDA which is present in the GUT of many Australians today and responsible for many of the diseases and cancers we have.

What we buy and object our bodies to does have an effect. Rather than crying about a symptom it is time to get back to basics and find pleasures from things other than highly processed and junk foods which we are addicted to. Eating a diet that is ALKALINE and supports GUT health. Food for fuel and to meet nutritional requirements. Counting Nutrients Not Calories!

Much like Don Chisholm's book "Do you have the GUTS to be really HEALTHY", Kristine talked about being very vigilant about what you expose your body to. That you are not just what you EAT, but what you ABSORB. Everything from the water you drink, the food you eat, the products you use in your home, the body perspirant (that has been linked with BREAST CANCER) and even the chlorine and impurities in the shower water you use.

Kristine follows a RAW DIET and has created an ALKALINE diet for people with CANDIDA. My husband and I arrived late because my blood sugar level dropped yesterday after fasting for a blood test that didn't eventuate (I returned this morning). I was sitting on the lounge dropping off to sleep at 7pm after a 5.30am start and then woke with a fright realising the presentation had already started lol

We quickly put our jackets on and jumped onto our mobility scooters and headed through the path, across the road into Bloomfield St and then to Ross Court (near Queensland Transport, Allied Health Centre, Pizza Hut). When we arrived Kristine's husband was leading the group assembled in a Zumba-like exercise in the recess.

Then Kristine did a presentation on health issues that plague Australia and the world today

Pain relief -

An extract from her website:

“Read how I cured my terminal cancer naturally, and how you can too!”

“In 2005, I was diagnosed with Terminal Stage 4 Melanoma Cancer. The doctors gave me 12 months to live. I refused to give up, and in 5 months I manage to cure my cancer naturally, with no chemo, no radiation and no surgery. 8 years later, I am alive and kicking and still 100% cancer free!”

Have you recently been diagnosed with cancer?

What if I told you there was hope?  What if I told you that there is a natural cure for cancer?

Story of a Cancer Survivor and how she cured cancer

My name is Kristine Matheson. I’m the author of “Cancer to Wellness: The Forgotten Secrets”. I was diagnosed with terminal melanoma cancer in 2005. The doctor gave me 12 months to live and told me to get my affairs in order. I decided I wasn’t going to go down the conventional path of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Call me stubborn, but I didn’t believe in what the doctor said. I knew my time wasn’t up! Instead, I took the situation into my own hands. I took the natural approach, and 5 months later I was cancer free, and still am to this day.

The Forgotten Secrets

In my journey I have discovered what I call “The Forgotten Secrets” of cancer. I used these simple, and natural protocols to heal my ‘terminal’ cancer in just 5 months. Through research and experimentation, I noticed something interesting and very exciting. These forgotten secrets work not only for cancer, but all other health problems as well!

I realised I had accomplished something really special, and that it was something the rest of the world should know about. So I decided to write the book “From Cancer to Wellness: the forgotten secrets”. It contains all the protocols I used to cure my cancer naturally, including nutrition, exercise, positive thoughts and absolutely delicious cancer fighting recipes.

I now want to share with you what’s in this book.

In this life transforming book, you will discover:

• What can cause cancer in our bodies

• The real effects of sugar on our body

• What caffeine and alcohol do to our bodies

• The truth about good fats and bad fats

• Acid and Alkaline foods, including a pH chart

• All about protein and its role in healing

• Why water is so important

• Why organic is necessary to healing disease

• Digestion and nutrient absorption

• Candida and the parasite connection (plus how to test and get rid of it!)

• How to make food your medicine

• My protocols to curing cancer

• The role of exercise in preventing disease

• Lifestyle guidelines

BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY

I provide you with a unique, and easy to follow 28 day nutritional & lifestyle program so you can heal from the inside out! Including simple, DELICIOUS, cancer fighting recipes (from breakfast, to dinner to anti-cancer ice cream, yummo!).

 Get your Book  NOW

FREE BONUS E-RECIPE BOOK WITH EVERY PURCHASE

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What some other people have to say

“Kristine Matheson is one of the most positive and courageous women that I have ever known.  Having been diagnosed with a stage four terminal melanoma in 2005, she refused conventional  therapy. She gathered all the information available on natural health and nutrition, and then  designed her own path to wellness. Her victory has become an inspiration to thousands of cancer  sufferers around the world through her enthusiastic public seminars and her motivating book.   Many people, when faced with a crisis, similar to Kristine’s 2005 death sentence, give up, break down or retreat into themselves. Kristine did none of these. She courageously challenged herself to  learn more about health, and then share her knowledge with the world. She has helped many  discouraged victims move forward and take control of their own health, then triumph without the  use of drugs or radiation.  Her book “From Cancer to Wellness – The Forgotten Secrets” contains a  wealth of information which details her experiences and research during her personal journey to health.  

Kristine has been associated with Living Valley Springs since her diagnosis. From that time to the  present, she has diligently treated her body as a precious gift from God. She has looked after it with  proper nutrition, exercise, sunlight, water, rest and balance. She is willing to coach anyone who comes to her for help, and she has often taken disheartened cancer sufferers into her home, where  she has personally cared for them, instructed them and guided them to a successful outcome.  

Kristine is an inspiring and exceptional woman. She is a vital advocate in raising awareness of the necessary role of nutrition and natural therapy in the treatment of cancer. Her passion for health education has produced many positive results within our local and wider communities. To call   Kristine Matheson a heroine would be an understatement. Kristine is a giant, a champion, yet a  humble, unselfish, philanthropic lifesaver who has not only saved her own life, but also the lives of  many others.”   - Gary Martin ND. AFAIM  Managing Director of Living Valley Springs

 In early 2010, I was in Australia fundraising for my wellness centre and someone gave me a book to read called ‘From Cancer to Wellness: the forgotten secrets’. – I could not put it down. I was so impressed with her book and her thoughts on raw food that I immediately asked if she would contribute some of her recipes and she kindly has”.  Olivia Newton-John Celebrity Singer/Actress

“Hi Kristine. Thank you for delivering your book personally to me, and all the help you provided – I was in a state of panic when we met. Your book was easy to read and even with my language difficulties I was able to understand your handbook. It took me only five months to be very healthy again thanks to you, and the information in your wonderful book”  - Marie  Burleigh Heads, Queensland

“From Cancer to Wellness – the forgotten secrets’ is simply brilliant, and Kristine speaks honestly and very informatively about this loaded subject which will affect all of us in some way at some time.

Her take on the cancer wellness industry is extremely well researched and the alternate path which she successfully took is simply inspiring. This book epitomises my own personal beliefs on the subject and strongly reminds me why I do what I do here at Unique, which is to represent alternate products that support a healthy immune system.”  – Dale Parkes  Managing Director  Unique Health Products

“Since meeting Kristine 5 months ago, my life has turned around.  I was an overweight, unfit, unhealthy 60 year old who was looking at escalating health problems (cholesterol, blood pressure, joint pain and the onset of diabetes ).  Now I am fitter, thinner and with no health problems that I am aware of.
My mental attitude has changed for the better.  My lifestyle has improved and I get up every morning, looking forward to the day and the future.
Without Kris’s advice, care, knowledge and support, I was looking at a sad ongoing life.  Her awareness of what goes on and her ability to “give”, is a bonus to all who meet her.”  – Barbara  Parkwood Queensland

By The Time You’ve Finished Reading “From Cancer to Wellness: The Forgotten Secrets” … You’ll Feel Like A New Person, With A New, More Positive Outlook!

You will also be equipped with some amazing information and tools to sculpt your health and your life to be the way you truly want it!

My passion has always been in education of good nutrition and life enhancing protocols. These protocols contained within the pages of “From Cancer to Wellness” has not only saved my life – it has saved countless others.

Are you suffering from illness, disease and depression? Heal yourself and be truly happy!

There are some people who are so stuck in their own mindset that nothing positive or helpful gets through. There is a quote which comes to mind

'The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting a different result'.

I have been that person in the past, hearing people give me helpful, friendly advice on how to improve my health and my life by diet, living clean food and products, positive affirmations, meditation and spending time in nature but not listening because of my mental health and physical health state. I was resentful and took everything as an insult because I was in a depression and wasn't willing to switch from 'eating for comfort' to 'food for fuel' and 'food and supplements for healing my health'.

So many people I love are crying on my shoulder about being sick and in pain, suffering with diseases that can be healed with meditation and clean food, and a positive outlook. There comes a time when you look at your life and realise that only YOU can keep you SUFFERING and only YOU can change your life and your mindset to be truly HEALTHY and HAPPY :)

It is so hard seeing people killing themselves through diet, mental health (suicide attempts, anorexia, anxiety disease, agoraphobia, psychotic episodes) when I know how easy it would be for them to turn their life around. I know, I've lived through it!

I have such low reserves of energy as it is, I am not wasting it on people who tell me all their problems, I research for HOURS (sometimes 100s of hours) for solutions, talking to experts, reading research articles, going to the library, compiling notes etc only to have the person totally ignore me and abuse me, then go back to their unhealthy lifestyles in 'victim' mode', preferring to 'SUFFER' and be a 'MARTYR', stating that they don't do anything for themselves - always for others.

I've had enough of being a camel carrying people on my back. It has been killing me, literally. Now I'm just blogging and sharing online and sending people links. If they want to change their life they will. Until then, I will be removing them from mine as they are a threat to my physical, spiritual and mental health. 

I share everything from my journey, including my life story in the hopes that people can relate to some of the things I have been through and my journey towards a happy, healthy life filled with adventures and enjoying the wonders of nature and life going on around them, that they have turned their backs on and retreated inwards to what is comfortable.

I urge everyone to please read the book:

"Do you have the GUTS to be truly HEALTHY"
http://www.donchisholm.com.au/

It is a condensed version of what I have researched over the past twenty (20) years and helps me maintain my Addisons Disease,  Anxiety, Depression, Autistic meltdowns, Candida, Fibromyalgia, Joint Pain, Stomach ulcers, and much more.

"His Clear and Straight Forward Advice is Not Only Good for You, it Encourages You to Really Question the Value of the Modern Healthy Diet"   Deborah White

Introduction: 

"We all want to be healthy but very few of us are actually healthy, let alone really healthy.
Don's approach is working for thousands of people who come from all over the world and with a wide variety of conditions. 

With disease on an ever increasing scale it is now apparent that almost all inhabitants of the western world are heading towards one disease or another. It seems that everyone has something that needs attention or conditions that are not showing signs of improvement.
The message is this, 

“We are not what we eat, we are what we absorb" 

and this is the very issue Don has concentrated on for the last 10 years. It is with these concept conditions even decades old have gone in a few months. 

Sugar cravings curved, energy increased, short term memory improvement, 47 years of diarrhoea gone in 60 days, autistic children going to normal school, operations cancelled, all by learning the simplicity of being healthy and it is all done by simply improving the gut.

For too long we have used products that simple mask the problem, pain killers for pain with no attention to why the pain, antibiotics with little attention to enhancing the immune system or antidepressants without considering the view that

the body is not healthy, and depression 

is a representation of that feeling.  

Have you got the guts points out the many myths that we have been led to believe are good for us, when in truth they are detrimental to our very existence. Don spent over 10 years traveling the world and worked in many clinics all over the world in his quest for his own health. The end result is a belief that 

there are no conditions that cannot be improved; 

many that supposedly have no cure are just a 

matter of dehydration combined with malnutrition.  

So do you feel you have the GUTS to be really HEALTHY? Read Dons approach to health and see how easy it would be to be one or two rungs higher on your health scale.
An easy read with proven results."

http://www.donchisholm.com.au/index.php/have-you-got-the-guts

Mind Body Spirit Festival & Mobility Scooters on a train

"The MindBodySpirit Festival is Australia’s largest, most popular health, wellbeing and natural therapies event. See more than 200 exhibitors, attend one of the many free inspirational seminars, book yourself in for a psychic reading, try some body pampering and take a break at the free performance stage. There’s something for everyone. From meditation, yoga, herbal supplements, organic health, women’s health, body therapies, psychic readings, crystals, life coaching and spiritual healing – it’s all at the MindBodySpirit Festival!"

I had wanted to visit the Mind Body Spirit Festival since it first started. I decided that this year I would attend the Brisbane Mind Body Spirit Festival held at RNA Showgrounds in Bowen Hills / Fortitude Valley. 

My husband and I have mobility scooters and I thought this would be a good test for how easy it is to travel on the train into Brisbane. It would also be the first time we took our Monarch and Walkabout scooters on the train and we were rather nervous about it 

 

It was rather a cold, drizzling morning but we pushed on regardless 

 I looked up the Translink Trip Planner and found that if we wanted to arrive in time for the first stage performance, Tibetan Tantric Healing then we had to leave Cleveland Station at 8.21am and then scoot just over one kilometre to the RNA Showgrounds. 

 We arrived at Fortitude Valley and followed all the people with Yoga mats to the RNA Showgrounds.

I was very glad we had taken the mobility scooter because my feet were very sore from long days preparing clean meals and my ankles were weak. I have Congenital Talipes Equinovarus (severe club feet) and until recently have kept off my feet as much as possible. I am trying very hard to lose weight and stay active and as such I have daily pain much akin to a 'twisted ankle'. A good diagram from ADAM below.

I had several operations when a toddler to shorten and lengthen tendons to straighten my feet, which failed. Then at age nine (9) my Mother took me to a convention of Orthopaedic Surgeons where it was decided there was another operation I could have. My bones were broken, chiselled and Calcanae surgically stapled. I was then in plasters from my toes to my hips and spent time in hospital, including my tenth (10th) birthday. The difference was remarkable and with the daily use of Colorado Military boots with steel heel support I am able to walk for three kilometres or stand on my feet much longer than ever before. I still have week ankles, bad circulation and pain but I am very grateful for their efforts.  I need an operation on my heels, hence the wanting to lose weight and get healthy in preparation.

Taking the mobility scooters on the Cleveland Train into Fortitude Valley was nerve-wracking but much easier than I thought The Station guard was so nice and alerted an assistant on the Train who put down the ramp and even helped me park the white Walkabout Mobility Scooter in the rectangle marked with a disability sign exactly for mobility scooter and wheelchair usage.

The hardest part of taking the mobility scooters was parking the scooters on the train and then turning them around inside the train to get off. The white Walkabout scooter is very easy to turn around. It is rather compact and has a neat turning circle. 

The red Monarch scooter was a bit more difficult as it is wider and taller but Philip managed beautifully.
We got off at Fortitude Valley Station where there was a small lift big enough for one mobility scooter at a time. A station guard pointed to the exit and gave us instructions on how to get to RNA Showgrounds and we scooted the one Kilometre with ease.

When we arrived at RNA Showgrounds I bought our tickets for the Mind Body Spirit Festival and talked to the amazing man on security at the door. He directed us to a place to park the mobility scooter near the ramp and kept a close watch on it during the day. We stored the heavy pamphlets in the large basket at the back of the red scooter and in the backpacks on the white one.

We arrived at the end of the Tibetan Tantric Healing presentation on stage.

After chanting, the Tibetan Lama talked about the Singing Bowls he had for sale to help fundraise his philanthropic efforts in Tibet, helping children and the disabled. I went over and told him that he was one of the main reasons for our visit to the Mind Body Spirit and our early start from Cleveland. I told him that I respected his efforts and asked if I could give him a hug, which he allowed. I then asked if I could take his photo in front of the Tibetan Tantric Healing stand, along with my husband Philip.

 He happily agreed and I purchased one of his Tibetan Singing Bowls which he then blessed as I held it. What an amazing experience.

Tibetan Singing Bowl with cushion
( wooden mallet not photographed)

Another highlight of the Mind Body Spirit Festival was the Don Chisholm display 'Have you got the GUTS to be REALLY healthy?" where I talked with Don for quite a while. He told me that he was a Multi Millionaire who had become sick and travelled the world looking for answers on how to heal himself, and then others. He wrote a book  'Have you got the GUTS to be REALLY healthy?"

Don had noticed me moving about the Expo and observed that I might have a hip problem. I have one hip higher than the other which is one of the reasons why my videos always appear shaky. We had a talk about my Pan Hypopituitarism (under-developed pituitary gland and absent pituitary stalk), Addisons Disease (adrenal insufficiency), Hypothyroidism, Cushings Disease (long term Corticosteroid use), Congenital Talipes Equinovarus, Irritable Bowl Disease, Gluten sensitivity and low immunity.

On the walls of his Expo booth there was information about the testing he performs to help you get a clear idea of what is really going on with your body and what areas need to be addressed.

From his website: 

 We all want to be healthy but very few of us are actually healthy, let alone really healthy.

 Don's approach is working for thousands of people who come from all over the world and with a wide variety of conditions.

 An easy read with proven results.

 With disease on an ever increasing scale it is now apparent that almost all inhabitants of the western world are heading towards one disease or another. It seems that everyone has something that needs attention or conditions that are not showing signs of improvement.

 The message is this, “We are not what we eat, we are what we absorb and this is the very issue Don has concentrated on for the last 10 years. It is with these concept conditions even decades old have gone in a few months.

Sugar cravings curved, energy increased, short term memory improvement, 47 years of diarrhoea gone in 60 days, autistic children going to normal school, operations cancelled, all by learning the simplicity of being healthy and it is all done by simply improving the gut.

 For to long we have used products that simple mask the problem, pain killers for pain with no attention to why the pain, antibiotics with little attention to enhancing the immune system or antidepressants without considering the view that the body is not healthy, and depression is a representation of that feeling.

 Have you got the guts points out the many myths that we have been led to believe are good for us, when in truth they are detrimental to our very existence. Don spent over 10 years traveling the world and worked in many clinics all over the world in his quest for his own health. The end result is a belief that there are no conditions that cannot be improved; many that supposedly have no cure are just a matter of dehydration combined with malnutrition.

 So do you feel you have the guts to be really healthy? Read Dons approach to health and see how easy it would be to be one or two rungs higher on your health 

Don is running a health retreat in October that I hope to attend.

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There were SO many stalls at the Mind Body Spirit festival and I will be adding entries to An Instant On the Lips over the coming weeks with some of my favourite products and services. It was an amazing event and I can't wait for the next one!